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The Record Interpreter.
  • merlare. See marlare.
  • merlengus, merlingus:—a ling (asellus longus).
  • merscum:—a marsh.
  • meruca:—a cod (morrhua vulgaris).
  • merulus:—a merlin (falco æsalon).
  • mesagium. See messuagium.
  • mescheninga:—wrongful prosecution (miskenning).
  • mesfacere:—to do wrong.
  • meslea, mesleia, mesleta:— a fray, a melée.
  • mesprisio. See misprisio.
  • messuria:—the office and profits of a farm bailiff.
  • messarius:—a mower or reaper; a farm bailiff.
  • messina:—harvest time.
  • messuagium:—a messuage; a dwelling-house.
  • mestaria, mestera, mesterum:—art; trade; mistery.
  • mestelenium:— the remains of a meal given as alms.
  • mesticare, mestifirare:—to make sad.
  • mestilo:—mesline, wheat and rye mixed.
  • meta:—a mete, a boundary.
  • meiallifodina:—a mine.
  • metebona:—work done for food.
  • mega:—a stack or heap of hay or corn, a mow.
  • micatorium:— a grater.
  • michia:—a loaf.
  • miles:—a knight.
  • miliare:—a thousand; a mile; a milestone.
  • miliatium:—millet.
  • milicentum:—a millstream.
  • militare:— to be knighted.
  • militia:—knighthood; a knight's fee; a body of knights or soldiers; tenure by knight service.
  • milium:—millet.
  • millenarium:—a thousand.
  • milliare:—a thousand; a mile; a milestone.
  • millo:—a hayrick.
  • milium:—a hound's collar.
  • milivellus. See mulvellus.
  • mimilogium:—minstrelsy.
  • mina:—a measure of corn, &c, 3 to 7 skeps; a measure of land, 120 ft. square; a measure of wine; a mine.
  • minagium:—toll paid on corn sold by the mina.
  • minare:—to drive; to guide.
  • minaria:—a mine.
  • minator:—a miner.
  • minera:—a mine, ore.
  • minerarius:—a miner.
  • mineria:—a mine; a quarry.
  • minetarius:—a miner.
  • miniator:—an illuminator.
  • minietum verrum:—miniver.
  • minigunga:—warning. (A. S. mynegung.)
  • minister:—a thane; a bailiff.
  • ministeriales:—traders.